Discussion

Please answer 1 and 2 within you initial post.

A1. The Affordable Care Act holds a provision that hospital systems complete a community health assessment and consequently, develop a strategy to address community health needs. Drawing on the assigned readings, what potential do you feel this holds to improve community health and how might this relate to nursings’ role – please give one specific hypothetical example (one paragraph). AND

A2. Epidemiological and demographic data can tell us much about the reality of a community. Based on a review/use of the epidemiology resources given this week, please describe one health reality that you were not previously aware of that became apparent to you from reviewing data found in a source given in the “Epidemiology and Demographic resources’ tab (please provide the data and cite the source, including URL). Then briefly propose one possible policy intervention to address this health issue that you would be interested in learning more about (one paragraph).

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